干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road: Intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at Xuanquanzhi Relay Station in China

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DOI	10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.010
	Early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road: Intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at Xuanquanzhi Relay Station in China
	Yeh, Hui-Yuan; Mao, Ruilin; Wang, Hui; Qi, Wuyun; Mitchell, Piers D.
通讯作者	Mitchell, PD
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS
ISSN	2352-409X
出版年	2016
卷号	9 页码:758-764
英文摘要	The Silk Road has often been blamed for the spread of infectious diseases in the past between East Asia, the Middle East and Europe. While such a hypothesis seems plausible, there is actually very little concrete evidence to prove that diseases were transmitted by early travellers moving along its various branches. The aim of this study is to look for ancient parasite eggs on personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at a large relay station on the Silk Road at Xuanquanzhi (111 BCE-CE 109), at the eastern margin of the Tarim Basin in north-western China. We isolated eggs of four species of parasitic intestinal worms: Chinese liver fluke (Clonorchis sinensis), Taenia sp. tapeworm (likely Taenia asiatica, Taenia solium or Taenia saginata), roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) and whipworm (Trichuris trichiura). The Chinese liver fluke requires wet marshy areas to sustain its life cycle and could not have been endemic to this arid region. The presence of this species suggests that people from well-watered areas of eastern or southern China travelled with their parasites to this relay station along the Silk Road, either for trade or on government business. This appears to be the earliest archaeological evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	China Helminths Latrine Liver fluke Migration Palaeoparasitology Parasites
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000415609700066
WOS关键词	YERSINIA-PESTIS ; PROVINCE ; PERIOD ; HEALTH ; AD
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331973
作者单位	[Yeh, Hui-Yuan; Mitchell, Piers D.] Univ Cambridge, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Henry Wellcome Bldg,Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge CB2 1QH, England; [Mao, Ruilin; Wang, Hui] Gansu Inst Cultural Relics & Archaeol, Lanzhou, Gansu, Peoples R China; [Qi, Wuyun] Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yeh, Hui-Yuan,Mao, Ruilin,Wang, Hui,et al. Early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road: Intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at Xuanquanzhi Relay Station in China[J],2016,9:758-764.
APA	Yeh, Hui-Yuan,Mao, Ruilin,Wang, Hui,Qi, Wuyun,&Mitchell, Piers D..(2016).Early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road: Intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at Xuanquanzhi Relay Station in China.JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS,9,758-764.
MLA	Yeh, Hui-Yuan,et al."Early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road: Intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at Xuanquanzhi Relay Station in China".JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS 9(2016):758-764.